By Our World in Data To track progress towards ending extreme poverty, the United Nations relies on World Bank estimates of the number of people living below a poverty threshold called the ...

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...

Global Citizen CEO, Hugh Evans, has a special proclamation for people across America. Evans, whose organization created the ...

COMMENT: As humanitarian need hits record levels, aid budgets are being cut and redirected, says David Miliband, the ...

5 September - Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

World leaders are gathering at one of the most turbulent and divisive moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations.

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

Contrary to an ideological rhetoric that declares certain parts of the world to be ‘developed’, all countries are developing countries. The categorization of ...

President Milei’s much-improved week continues as national statistics bureau reveals poverty dropped by more than six points ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, according to a new poll, while fewer blame a lack of government support. However, just over ...